[meteorite-list] A Blast From Heaven?

From: Jose Campos <josecamposcomet_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:17:43 2004
Message-ID: <025701c3bf6b$f1be43d0$41c216d5_at_computername>

Hi Tracy,

Tks. for your interesting info.
I would like to know more about that island in the Azores (?) being watched
for a possible massive landslide.
If my memory is right, I think that I read (quite sometime ago, some 2 yrs
ago or so), about something similar - but refering to one of the Canary
islands - not the Azores?
Could you please confirm?
Best wishes, regards,

José

----- Original Message -----
From: "tracy latimer" <daistiho_at_hotmail.com>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] A Blast From Heaven?


> That is correct. Most of Molokai's north side, for example (where
Kalaupapa
> peninsula is now, the site of the infamous leper colony), was a victim of
> one of those huge landslips millions of years ago, and the Hawaiian
islands
> have a record of big pieces of various islands cracking off and falling
into
> the sea, generating huge tsunamis. There are marine deposits over 1000'
> high on Lanai that are attributed to such an occurrence. There is another
> island in the Azores that is being closely watched for just such a
> landslide; it has the potential to wipe out most ports in the Atlantic.
>
> Tracy Latimer
>
>
> >From: GeoZay_at_aol.com
> >To: meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
> >Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] A Blast From Heaven?
> >Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 10:13:57 EST
> >
> >In a message dated 12/4/2003 8:57:57 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> >baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov writes:
> > >>At one place, Jervis
> >Bay, waves apparently surmounted a headland 420 feet high. "Only a
> >bolide could do this," says Bryant, using a technical term for a
> >sky-bursting cosmic missile.<<
> >Well...I've read sometime in the past that land slumping off various
> >islands
> >can do this as well. Such a place that has done it in the past are the
> >hawaiian islands. There's a big crack in one of the islands now, that is
> >apparently
> >doing a slow move towards a massive land slide into the ocean. Some of
> >these
> >slides occur totally underwater. From what I've read, there's been quite
a
> >few
> >of these to have occurred thru out history.
> >George Zay
>
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